Ashley Zacharias

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”
― Gore Vidal

It was true during Gore Vidal's lifetime and it's still true. All that's changed is that it's become much more obvious now.

"Write something, even it it's just a suicide note." = Gore Vidal

You might think you're dark, but you can't hold a candle to Gove Vidal.

Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws?
Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

"Epic Fury" is Epic Fuckery taking us to Epic Penury.

In the eyes of Trump and his minions, this is all a video game and they're the only players that matter. You and I and all the rest of us are just NPCs who can be sacrificed with no consequence.

I understand why Putin wants to destroy America, and I can guess why Trump is helping him do it. But I'll never figure out why Congress is letting him get away with it.

The only way Trump can crash America and plunder the wreckage is to violate the Constitution.
If he went to Congress for permission to wage war, to impose taxes, to revise the budget, to change voting procedures, as required by the Constitution, it would take forever to do what he's already done.

America and Western Europe view socialism differnetly.
America is terrified of socialism as a unified system that opposes capitalism.
Europe sees it as a collection of economic policies that can be applied piecemeal as required.
Europe's pragmatism has given them a stronger economy than America's.

Trump Regime's strategy for war with Iran:
wishing and hoping and praying and dreaming
and no thinking or planning.

That's not a recipe for winning

Trump Regime:
Iran's nuclear program has been obliterated
A couple months later:
Iran is about to build nuclear weapons
Also:
We don't have enough bombs to help Ukraine
A couple months later:
We have an endless supply of bombs to drop on Iran
The Trump Regime needs to make up their damned mind.

Trump is spending a billion dollars of your money every day in Iran on the most expensive fireworks show in history.
That's a billion dollars per day that could be spent on giving yoiu health care.

It is offcially the "Department of Defense", but Trump/Hegseth wanted to call it the "Department of War." Now watch them decide to call it the "Department of Limited Military Action" because that's the what Trump has to say to justify the bombing under the War Measures Act.

Trump's Middle East strategy is more likely to result in regime change in America than in Iran.

Trump wants to be the puppet. The puppet gets to swagger around on center stage and get all the applause. The puppeteer has to hide out of sight and do all the hard work.

The most difficult part of playing Trump for a fool is getting ahead of everyone else who is playing him for a fool.
It looked like Putin was the clear winner for a long time, but now we see Netanyahu leaving Putin in the dust

Trump can't simply say, "I won!" and stop the war because that would leave Israel vulnerable. Trump has committed you and your children to fighting in the Middle East forever without consulting you or your representatives in Congress. Netanyahu knew what he was doing when he engineered this.

In the future, historians will call this one: "The War for No Good Reason"

There is an established legal principle that if an accused person destroys evidence, then a jury is justified in assuming the evidence would have shown guilt because the accused would not have destroyed evidence of their innocence.
The logic is simple and sound.

Bannon's strategy was to "flood the zone with shit"
Trump heard, "fill the headlines with dead Americans"
ICE wasn't killing enough
The measles wasn't killing enough
Mass murderers weren't killing enough
So now he's launched a full scale war
That should do it

How many Americans will be sacrificed in a war with Iran for the sole purpose of distracting us from Trump's pedophelia?

I'm so old, I remember when I used to have to change an old burned out lightbulb somewhere in the house every few weeks.

So remind me again: Who did Iran attack? Not just now, but anytime in the last hundred years.

It only takes one side to start a war, but both sides have to agree to end a war.
That's a lot harder.

It's so cute how the billionaire-owned media struggles so hard to pretend that Trump has a strategy and goals for his war in the Middle East when we all know his only strategy is to cause chaos and his only goal is to get his name in the headlines every day.

Trump thinks bombing Iran will cause a revolution. He's an ignorant moron. In the face of a foreign invasion by the US and Israel, the citizens of Iran are consolidating their support for the regime, not trying to overthrow it. Nothing brings people together like a threat from outside.

Trump thinks it will be easy to defeat Iran. He's an ignorant moron. Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and Iran held them of for 8 years. It has been preparing for all-out war with Israel and America ever since. It has the support of both Russia and China. Iran will be tougher to beat than Ukraine.

Trump's Board of Peace?
More like: Trump is bored of peace.

You don't start a war unless you know what you want to get for all the blood you're going to spill.
All Trump wants is headlines and he's already spilling American blood to get them.
The American people are going to pay the full cost of this war and get nothing they want from it. Nothing.

Me: "The government shouldn't be spying on me."
MAGA: "You don't have to worry about it if you haven't done anything wrong."
Me: "Trump thinks that any criticism of him is wrong."
MAGA: "Sure. So don't say anything bad about him and you won't have any worries."

DOJ has come to mean the Department of Obstruction of Justice.